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“pampinus latitudine tua excipit aeris insultus, cum res ita 
-desiderat et fenestra clementiam caloris solaris admittit.” That 
this was a common use of the Vine appears from Lydgate, who, 
writing in the 15th century, speaks in one of his minor poems of 
«Vinettes running in the casements,” and so Professor Willis, in 
his ‘‘ Architectural History of Cambridge,” considers that the 
Vine was generally planted for the shade it afforded.” 
(Gard. Chron., Novembev 17th, 1888.)* 
From these general notices of the Vine, I come to a list of tue 
Vineyards in Gloucestershire so far as I have been able to make 
them out, but I feel very sure that there must be many more. 
You have heard mention of two by Camden, one at Tewkesbury 
—of which record still remains in a field called the Vineyard or 
Winyatts—the other at Gloucester. This was on the estate of 
the Abbot of Gloucester, and we are told that when Queen 
Elizabeth was making her progress through Gloucestershire in 
1592 she ‘“‘was met at Prinknash by the Abbot of Gloucester, 
who conducted her through Gloucester to his mansion on 
Vineyard Hill. (Trans. Gloucester and Bristol Archeological 
Society, vit., 274.) I believe the name still remains. 
At Winchcombe there is a street called Vineyard Street, which 
must mark the site of an ancient Vineyard, probably belonging 
to the Abbey of Winchcombe, but Mrs. Dent, the able historian 
of Winchcombe and Sudeley, has not been able to find any 
further account of it. 
At Upton 8. Leonards the site of an ancient Vineyard is also 
marked by the present name. 
In 18. Ed. IIJ., William Mansfield was siezed of a Vineyard, 
vi acres of land, and iij acres of wood in Bisley. (Atkins, p. 32.) 
Of this there are no remains.t 
* Polydore Virgil gives the same use of the Vine in England :— 
“Vites in hortis magis umbre quam fructus caus& passim crescunt,” 
—Angl. Hist., lib. 1. 
+ Bisley proper is one of the most bleak places in the county, but 
there are warm sheltered valleys in the parish well suited to Vine 
growing. 
